Title Eternal garden : mysticism, history, and politics at a South Asian Sufi center / Carl W. Ernst ; foreword by Annemarie Schimmel.

Publication Info.	Albany : State University of New York Press, [1992]
	©1992

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	BP189.7.C49 E76 1992	Available	---

Description	xxxi, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series	Suny series in Muslim spirituality in South Asia
	Suny series in Muslim spirituality in South Asia.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-360) and indexes.
Contents	Part 1: Historiographical orientation: Sufism and Islam in South Asia -- Sufism -- Historiographies of Islam in India -- Religion and empire in the Delhi Sultanate -- The textual formation of oral teachings in the early Chishtī Order -- The interpretation of the Sufi biographical tradition in India -- Part 2: Chishtī Sufism at Khuldabad -- From Delhi to the Deccan -- Burhān al-Dīn Gharib's establishment and teaching -- The Indian environment and the question of conversion -- Part 3: The Khuldabad Sufis in history -- Political history of the Khuldabad shrines -- Khuldabad as a sacred center in the local context -- Part 4: Conclusions.
Subject	Chishtīyah -- India -- Khuldabad -- History.
	Chishtīyah.
	India -- Khuldabad.
	History.
	Khuldabad (India) -- Religious life and customs.
	Sufism -- India -- History.
	Sufism.
	India.
	Khuldabad (India) -- Vida religiosa y costumbres.
	Sufismo -- India -- Historia
ISBN	0791408833 alkaline paper
	0791408841 paperback alkaline paper